Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Cheaper by the Dozen
- Who's watched: M & G
- Mentions: *1* *2*
- Commentary: I think Mom goes into deep reverie over this movie. The first few weeks after we purchased and first watched it, she watched this movie very frequently. I think I've memorized quite a bit of it. She likes the older version with Myrna Loy and Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda, too, as much if not more than the others, because Lucille Ball becomes a Navy wife, which my mother was, for awhile. I can never remember a time when my mother hasn't said, "I would have loved to have a dozen kids. We would have, if we could have afforded them."
Forgive my momentary, and cheap, philosophizing, but, isn't it interesting that in a rich country people wonder if they can afford to have lots of children, whereas in a poor country people wonder if they can afford not to have lots of kids.
Update 8/10/21: Yes, I gave this movie to the library in the first cull of my collection after my mom died. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy it, it's that my mother insisted on watching it so often I could quote dialog from it, so I had no desire to see, or hear, it again.
Update 11/17/2021: This post was originally published February 6, 2005. It was one of the accidental deletions that occurred, which is covered in this post.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Steve Martin Tom Baker Bonnie Hunt Kate Baker Piper Perabo Nora Baker Hilary Duff Lorraine Baker Paula Marshall Tina Shenk Alan Ruck Bill Shenk Tiffany Dupont Beth Ashton Kutcher Hank
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 2003
Directed by Shawn Levy.
Labels: comedy2, mom-favorite2
